The Empire Health Foundation will discontinue its role as a member of Inland Northwest Health Services, leaving Providence Health Care as INHS's lone member. As part of the restructuring, Providence is making a $40 million donation to the a joint a

Spokane-based Blue Room Architecture & Design PS says it and its team of local consulting engineers is beginning work on the design of a $25 million replacement hospital in Bowman, N.D., a small town in the southwest corner of that state.John is

Spokane-based Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories LLC has launched a new testing division named Aion Laboratories, which specializes in diagnostics in the growing field of age-management medicine, says Patty Sipes, PAML senior vice president

Deaconess Hospital has appointed Maurine Cate as its new CEO. She's expected to start in January.Cate currently is CEO of McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center, in Springfield, Ore., where she has served as CEO since 2007. Community Health Systems

Spokane Community College plans to start two new courses for certification as a nursing assistant, known as an NAC. Jane Branda, NAC program director at SCC, says the school will offer the medical assistant certified and home care aide certified

Providence Health Care, the big health-services network here, and Inland Northwest Blood Center say they've entered into a five-year agreement aimed at streamlining blood-management services and improving patient care.The two organizations say a

It's been said that "health is wealth," and it's becoming more evident to employers that the opposite is also true. According to the Workforce Wellness Index, unhealthy behaviors among the U.S. workforce cost employers annually a total of in